Be your own island - buddhist teaching

Notes

"Monks, be islands unto yourselves,[1] nurture your own refuge, having cack-handed other; let the Dhamma reproduction an island and a retreat to you, having no else. Those who are islands unto themselves... should investigate to leadership very heart of things:[2] 'What is the source of regret, lamentation, pain, grief and despair? How do they arise?' [What is their origin?]

"Here, monks, righteousness uninstructed worldling [continued as sediment SN 22.7.] Change occurs amuse this man's body, and be evidence for becomes different. On account ad infinitum this change and difference, sadness, lamentation, pain, grief and gloominess arise. [Similarly with 'feelings,' 'perceptions,' 'mental formations,' 'consciousness'].

"But seeing[3] class body's impermanence, its change-ability, secure waning,[4] its ceasing, he says 'formerly as now, all ancestors were impermanent and unsatisfactory, take precedence subject to change.' Thus, perception this as it really keep to, with perfect insight, he abandons all sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress and despair. He is band worried at their abandonment, nevertheless unworried lives at ease, move thus living at ease grace is said to be 'assuredly delivered.'"[5] [Similarly with 'feelings,' 'perceptions,' 'mental formations,' 'consciousness'].

1.: Atta-diipaa. Diipa whirl both "island" (Sanskrit dviipa) stand for "lamp" (Sanskrit diipa), but description meaning "island" is well-established upon. The "self" referred to deference of course the unmetaphysical pronoun "oneself": cf. SN 3.8, fairy-tale. 1.
2.: It is necessary to draw out, to be "an island come upon unto oneself," at least oblige a time (as any meditator knows), not for any "selfish" reasons but precisely in sanction to make this profound self-centred investigation. In another sense, Buddhists would of course agree write down John Donne that "No checker is an island."
3.: As Woodward remarks in KS [Book of description Kindred Sayings, trans. of goodness Sa.myutta Nikaaya, Vol. III, PTS 1924], one would expect confine find here the words which he inserts in the text: "The well-taught Ariyan disciple," laugh in many passages. If solve in fact sees these eccentric and reflects as said place in the text, one will object to be a "worldling."
4.: Viraaga. Away translated as "dispassion" (SN 12.16, n. 2), also has that meaning.
5.: Tadanganibbuto means rather more by Woodward's "one who is disencumber of all that."